The Slam book Tag!!!

Its good to be Kid at times, I saw this tag on some blog and wanted to do it, maybe this might sound silly to a lot of you, but I probably wanted to do something that we did in class 9th, its kiddish but exciting, like filling a slam book :-)

This is pretty simple, just write your set of answers for the questions here!

1. What is your middle name?
I don't have one.

2. How big is your bed?
Depends on the where I am

3.What are you listening to right now?
All summer long by Kid Rock

4. What was the last thing you ate?
Fried Eggs and Toast

5. Last person you hugged?
Rathi, when he was leaving for US

6. How is the weather right now?
Lovely, 18 degrees in the morning, cloudy

7. Who was the last person you talked to on the phone?
Nitin

8. The first thing you notice about the opposite sex?
Depends ;-)

9. Favorite type of Food?
Indian, Ghar ka.. Continental, Chinese, ice creams

10. Have you ever cried over a love lost?
Maybe

11. Last Movie you watched?
Sarkar Raj

12. Do you have any piercings?
No

13. Favorite Movie?
Many: Chashme Budoor, Jane bhi do yaaron, Forrest Gump, Noting hill, Reservoir Dogs

14. What were you doing before filling this out?
Getting irritated at the cab drivers (I just came into office!)

15. Have you ever loved someone?
Yes


16. Who would you like to see right now?
Ankita

17. What color are your bedroom walls?
Cream, and that is boring

18. Have you ever fired a gun?
Yes.

19. Do you like to travel by plane?
Theek hai

20. Right-handed or Left-handed?
Right-handed.

21. If you could go to any place right now where would you go?
Andaman / Goa


22. Do you still watch cartoons on Saturday mornings?
Yes

23. What is the wallpaper on your cellphone?
Photograph clicked by me during my last run at Bellandur

24. Favorite hangout:
Airlines, after my weekend runs and Koshy's, anytime

25. 3 things you can't live without?
Food, sleep, run

26. Favorite songs?
Sweet home Alabama, khaali haath shaam aayi hai (Ijaazat), Seene main Jalan (Gaman)

27. What are you afraid of?
Height !

28. What are your nicknames?
"Rah Sahab", Shant, Santana ;-)

29. Stuck on a deserted island, and can only bring one thing?
Boat

30. First thing you'll save in a fire?
Myself, isn't that by default ??? or is it my running shoes ??? confused ;-)

31. What is your favorite color?
Sky Blue

32. What are the things you always bring with you?
iPhone (yeah I own one now!!!), wallet

33. What did you want to be when you were a kid?
Police Officer

34. What do you usually do when the alarm turns on?
snooze and go back to sleep, Except for the weekend run alarm

35. What do you think about before you go to bed?
Ahhhh Finally!!!

I pass on this Tag to:

Pheonix
Yashshri
Meghana
Nitin
Rajaram

Song Today in Car: All summer Long by Kid Rock

The Great Eight...

So... Madam Pheonix, after rising from the ashes has tagged me. This tag is called aath ka aankda, as Pheonix called it. I need to list eight things, under a lot of catogories:

Eight things I am passionate about:

Running
Driving
My Family
Food (yeah I am a big foodie, so u see I need to continue running all my life!!)
Good Bakar (to be read as conversations)
Movies
Reading
Music (specially RD Burman's)

Eight things I want to do before I die:

Run a 100 mile Himalayan Stage Run
own a BMW
Drive from Kerala to Kashmir and see the real India by road
Travel to a lot of arbit places in India, and then travel around the world!
Drive a ferrari
Start an NGO of my choice, which actually will "work" for the cause
Run the Boston Marathon.
Go for a vacation to Hawai...


Eight things I say often:

"Apparantly..."
"YUps..."
"Hey Dude..."
"Well..."
"Dhakkan.."
"Oye.."
"Ki haal chaal.."
"Chalo fir..."

Eight books I’ve read recently:

Life of Pi
Husband of a fanatic
Shalimar the Clown
Shantaram
Atlas Shrugged
Cuckold
The Google Story
Maximum City

Eight songs I could listen to, over and over:

Mera Kuchh Samaan... (Ijazat)
Katra Katra... (Ijazat)
Do Naina aur ek kahani.. (masoom)
Comfortably Numb... (Pink Floyd)
I'd love you to want me (Lobo)
Seene main jalan... (Gaman)
Aaj kal paaon zameen par... (Ghar)
Kal Chaudvi ki raat thi... (Jagjit Singh)

Eight things that attract me to my best friends:

Approachable
Staright Forward nature
Reliable
Perception
smartness
Genuineness
Down to earth attitude


I pass on this tag to:

Nitin
Rathi
Manoj
Archana
yashshri
Kanu

Song Today: Deewana hua badal (Kashmir ki Kali)

Tag...

Saw this tag on one of the blogs, so thought of doing it.

Now the rules, this is relatively simple, I have taken the letter N and described some words, what they remind of me. You all would be assigned some similar letter, describe yourself

Nakedness: something that is more real, so more a part of me (transitivity) !
Nano: car from Tata / IPOD Nano ?
Now: I live in present...
Nascent: most of my ideas
Nation: Mera Bharat Mahan
Naughtiness: always a part of me :-)
Negative: one thing i prefer not to be but at times end up thinking that way
Negotiation: Auto Walahs
Narayan: Reminds me of the Prodigy song...
Nervousness: makes me fall asleep
Newton: is a unit in Physics
New York: I would definitely like to visit
Niece: too many
Nomad: my mind
Nuclear: my family
Nazi: I love to read about them
Nirvana: Used to be my favorite rock band.
North Korea: You get pathetic food there
Nasal: Himmesh / Atif Aslam
Network: reminds me of Facebook / orkut, what else can you think in this age of "Online Social Networking"
New Orleans: Never been there


I pass this tag on to:

Pheonix: Your letter is C
Yashshri: your letter is M
Rays of Sun: your letter is R
Dreamcatcher: your letter is D
Manoj: since you are a runner, I give you R
Nitin: Your letter is S

Read On........

So here I have been tagged by Pheonix, and I would love to do this tag. This tag came when I have again revived my hunger for books!!

A book that made you laugh: This has to be Calvin and Hobbes, my all time favorite the other one obviously being Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams

A book that made you cry: The Kite runner, Khalid Hosseini and we the living , Ayn Rand. the latest I have cried like a baby though was while watching Tare Zameen par, specially that song Ma.... By the way I get a lump in my throat pretty easily :-P

A book that scared you: mmm None, but on second thoughts Rise and Fall of the third Reich, William L Shirer. The part which describes the concentration Camps in Germany and Romania, and the way Jews were treated, its highly recommended, one of the most correct accounts of World War-II.

A book you loved in elementary school: Billoo, Lotpot, Radiant Reader (This was a part of ICSE curriculum) and last but not the least Nagraj!!

A book you loved in middle school or junior high school: The viking process, Hartley Norman (it was a thriller).

A book you loved in high school: Old Man and the sea, and I still love it.

A book you loved in college: This was the actual time I fell in love with books / Reading, there are many, to name a few:
- Tamas, Bhisham Sahni
- Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
- Macbeth, Shakespeare
- The day of the Jackal, Fredrick Forsyth
- Across Black Waters, Mulk Raj Anand
- The odessa files, Fredrick forsyth (this book also made me cry, the chapter where the Jew Police guy ends up revealing that the lady he has just sent to the Gas chamber was his WIFE....)

and many more

A book that challenged your identity:
Well doesnt actually challenged my identity, but definitely it changed the way I look at things, my perspective and my priorities, and to dream a Utopian dream.
- Veronika decides to die, Paulo Coelho
- The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
- Shantaram, Gregory David Roberts

A series that you love:
I agree with Taru here I would also go with Lord of the Rings

Your favorite horror book: None

Your favorite science fiction book:
Doesnt really like Science Fiction books, however if we talk of Movies then it has to me Matrix (the first part) :-P

Your favorite fantasy:
Lord Of the Rings

Your favorite mystery:
there was a time I used to read a lot of mystery, but not anymore, however at that time my favorite were: Sherlock Holmes, and later when I grew a little older Agatha Chritie

Your favorite biography:
- Its not about the bike, Lance Armstrong

Your favorite classic:
- Macbeth, Shakespeare
- Wuthering heights, Emily Bronte
- Discovery of India, Jawaharlal Nehru (actually doesnt quite remeber it, read a long time back, but at that time I like it)

Your favorite romance book: NONE

I wanted to list a lot of books, but then some books doesnt fall in any catogory, one of my favorites are:
- Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
- An Equal Music, Vikram Seth
- The Kite Runner, Khalid Hosseini
- A thousand Splendid Suns, Khalid Hosseini
- Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand
- Fountainhead, Ayn Rand

I pass this tag on to:

Rathi
Rays of Sun
Kanu
Nitin

Tags....

I have been tagged by Pheonix. Now here comes the tough part, I have to write about five things, that I am fond of and then add adjectives to it as well! The example given in the original post: My super cool super fast car....I wish I had a red-coloured super cool super fast car.

Hmmm this is tough what am I fond of, so the list goes like this:

1. My azure Grey Swift....but my dream car is a Volkswagon Passat... ya I know thats too high a dream ;-) well I would rather lower my choice of the dream car on second thoughts and that would be a Mitsubishi Lancer Cedia :-P so that is more practical now.

2. Good friends... but I have lost many of them or maybe its that I think too hard, people are practical in relatioships but I am not, I guess its high time I need to be.

3. Parents and the most loving younger sister in this whole wide world, well I think I cant ask for more here... that would be too greedy!

4. The running stamina that I have developed in the last one year... but I would really want to do cycling like Lance Armstrong or run Ultra marathons like Paula Radcliffe. Ok the latest materialistic item of desire is the Polar RS 200sd Heart Rate Monitor (that is a gadget used in running for telling the heart rate, the distance and the speed!)

5. I take things really seriously at times, maybe I need to take a chill pill, and this chill pill I need to take more often now!

wooosh so done! well Thanks Pheonix you actually made me sit down and think about a lot of things! Probably a good self analysis is done today! :P

Song Today: Jalta hai Jiya mera bheegi bheegi raton main......